Spain Cut Unemployment Benefits during the Great Recession, and Labor Rallied

In the turmoil of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in relation

Prescription Opioids and Labor Market Pains

In the United States, the opioid epidemic has had dramatic adverse effects—in 2017 alone there were over 45,000 overdose deaths

States subsidize public higher education with the goal of building an educated workforce. But college-educated workers can and often do

Evidence suggests that government subsidies typically increase school attendance and at the same time decrease paid work by children. The

Economists have been studying how minimum wage increases affect employment for a long time, but indexing the minimum wage to

Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood

Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests

Policies aimed at tackling youth unemployment are a key priority for policymakers because unemployment when young is known to have

The United States is one of very few OECD countries where employers provide sick pay only voluntarily. This has led

Many people are dying wealthier and leaving larger estates. At the same time, the old-age economic dependency ratio—the number of